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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Workshop on
Understanding, Conducting and Supporting
Rapidly Evolving Digitally-Derived Investigations
25 March 2003
Edinburgh, Scotland
http://umbriel.dcs.gla.ac.uk/NeSC/general/esi/events/155/
Registration is Free
This workshop addresses challenges associated with understanding, conducting
and providing support for empirical investigations (experiments, exploratory
studies, data mining) based on digitally-derived data. Examples of such
investigations include, amongst others:
* using logged server-side queries to e-business websites to try to
understand consumer behavior,
* analyzing event logs from workstations in student laboratories to test
hypotheses about the effectiveness of computer-based learning techniques,
* mining user performance data from appropriately instrumented groupware to
search for patterns of collaborative behaviour.
The scope of the workshop covers using computers and networks to collect data
(often logging data but including diverse kinds, not all of which will be
digital in origin) with a view to making discoveries; supporting the rapid
reconfiguration of such investigations, at the application level and down at
the distributed systems level; and managing investigations that may be
hypothesis-driven and may require rapid evolution due to results gained from a
mining of the currently collected data, leading to the emergence of unforeseen
patterns and conclusions.
The workshop will be divided into three themes: technical, theoretical and case
studies. We are keen to receive papers that address issues (and others) in the
following areas:
Technical Theme Theoretical Theme
* Implementation and low-level * How to characterise rapidly
technical details of providing evolving digitally-derived
run-time support to be able to investigations?
change the experiment as it
executes. * How might investigation data be
modelled?
* How to support changes to system
implementation at run-time * How might the data be cleaned?
* How to efficiently find the part * Which data elements should be
of the system that needs to be retained or discarded?
changed?
* What are the ethical issues
* How to provide an implementation involved in collecting data
that scales beyond a LAN? about people?
* How to instrument legacy code so * How can the data best be mined?
that is may participate in a
distributed data collection? * What techniques are tools are
available to get the most from the
* How to perform distributed collected data to inform new
fault analysis and respond questions, hypotheses and
to such events? investigations?
* To what degree can an experiment * What privacy issues does using
be self-managing, espcially in the and deploying such a system raise?
face of errors?
Case Studies Theme
We are also keen to receive case study reports and presentations from people
who have conducted experiments and investigations in any way similar to those
identified above. The case study material can be anything from an anecdotal
account of a performed investigation, to a report on work published in a
peer-reviewed journal.
The workshop is open to researchers and those working in industry who are
involved at all levels in such investigations. The workshop is relevant to,
amongst others, people working in disciplines other than computing science,
such as customer profiling, physiological monitoring, developers of on-line
training and educational material.
We are particularly interested in receiving position statements and short
papers from those who have just started a project in this area. We are also
keen to hear from PhD students working in any of the areas identified above,
whether you have just started the PhD, or if you are some way into it.
For more information, please see
http://umbriel.dcs.gla.ac.uk/NeSC/general/esi/events/155/
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